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Massachusetts Health Care Reform 2006
An Analysis of the Pros and Cons

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On April 12, 2006, Massachusetts’ Governor Mitt Romney signed into law legislation that requires all residents of the Commonwealth to have health insurance and establishes measures to expand access to coverage and restructure the insurance market to meet this goal. The purpose of this issue brief is to explain the major tenets of the new Massachusetts law, at least as they pertain to the issue of insuring the uninsured,1 and to supply some pertinent considerations and statistics to generate discussion among policy makers as to whether or not the health care reform design heralded by Massachusetts—or some variation thereof—has potential applicability in Ohio.

Readers of this brief may also be interested in HPIO's Universal Health Care in Massachusetts: Implications for Ohio.